Dragon Ball Z "Seasons" On Blu-ray: News & Discussion

[samuraix123]

Dragon Ball Z Season 6 Blu ray screenshots from episodes 176-185: http://i.minus.com/ibpnDne3F9S0ts.png

It's just a picture of Goku

[Ajay]

Yeah, I'm fairly sure he meant to link this.

I still hate how watery all the line art looks in this release.

[samuraix123]

Will someone pleaaaaaaaaaaaase do me a small favor? was the episode were Goku blasts Cell with a Kamehameha left fully intact? Because they edited out a part of it on the orange bricks. Goku says Kameha missing *me* then Ha! happens at 1:14 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg1bCXFLKdY it's freaking weird why they did that!

[Valerius Dover]

Will someone pleaaaaaaaaaaaase do me a small favor? was the episode were Goku blasts Cell with a Kamehameha left fully intact? Because they edited out a part of it on the orange bricks. Goku says Kameha missing *me* then Ha! happens at 1:14 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg1bCXFLKdY it's freaking weird why they did that!

You made it sound like it's a visual edit at first. The Bricks are very much uncut. Either way, I remember that and thought it was weird. It's just an audio mistake. Funny, the DB Wiki says the exact opposite.

[jjgp1112]

Looks like they're not really messing with the colors anymore. Though it all it does is make me wish the Level sets never got cancelled

[samuraix123]

Yeah I was just wondering if it's intact or not.

[JEFFMAN219]

Yeah, I'm fairly sure he meant to link this.

I still hate how watery all the line art looks in this release.

Ya the background does look watery but other then that the picture quality looks fine to me.

[Ajay]

I was talking about the line art. None of it looks black and crisp as it should be. They all look like old, faded cels rather than how they should look.

It just looks so watery and out of focus.

For comparison's sake:

Spoiler:

Season Set:

Kai:

Kai 16:9 TV Crop:

Once again, these sets feature washed out, near ghost-like line art and overly bright colours.

[Son Edo]

Keen for dat Tao Pai Pai filler

[JEFFMAN219]

I was talking about the line art. None of it looks black and crisp as it should be. They all look like old, faded cels rather than how they should look.

It just looks so watery and out of focus.

For comparison's sake:

Spoiler:

Season Set:

Kai:

Kai 16:9 TV Crop:

Once again, these sets feature washed out, near ghost-like line art and overly bright colours.

Oh now I see what your talking about and ya I do agree with you. i think this problem started in season 5.

[JEFFMAN219]

Yeah these Menu's are pretty great. Does anyone have any videos/images of what the Level, DBox and OB menu's were/are like?

Orange Bricks: Closest I could find https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GRiFYU3pQ and the themes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewDOJ8s0WVQ

Level Sets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1StlQ-U1PvI

Dragon Boxes: Just a scouter with options to be honest with the Ginyu Force Theme playing. I think the American One has just a still image though at least from the ones I have
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ErvWCKjzlY

Do you have the dvd singles menus by any chance?

[eledoremassis02]

This season looks pretty good. Looks like they left in more grain

[qjz123]

Dragon Ball Z Season 6 Blu ray screenshots from episodes 186-194: http://min.us/mTOPYbIvXA71t


Dragon Ball Z Season 6 Blu ray screenshots from episodes 166-175: http://min.us/mbc5YoVThIN2s2
Dragon Ball Z Season 6 Blu ray screenshots from episodes 176-185: http://min.us/mJEZXZSgwBHgg

[Ajay]

Holy shit, look how blurry this is! How are we calling this an improvement?!

Spoiler:

Kai may have been a little on the soft side of things but at least its line art didn't feature heavy ghosting. The season set is so watery and horrible.

I hope you guys are opening these images at 100% and comparing them.

EDIT: To clarify - what I mean is that not everyone will be viewing these screenshots on full 1080p monitors or large TVs since the average PC user has a monitor (laptop) at a resolution of 1366 x 768. These Blu-rays don't look awful when they're viewed small so when I say 'open at 100%', I'm simply asking that you actually right click and open them in a new window at 100% so you can actually see the level of detail you're going to notice on your average TV. Base opinions on how they'll actually be seen rather than something scaled down.

[bkev]

Cropping aside, I think I can say this is honestly no worse than some of Toei's other remasters in the HD era. The Galaxy Express 999 TV series looks pretty awful from what I've seen.

I'm really surprised by these colors, though -- I remember this part being a lot darker on the orange bricks. It seems that they did a lot more color correction for those. In hindsight, maybe that was a really good thing. I'd bet the later orange brick seasons would have looked great in HD and might stand side by side with these for quality (how high the quality is, of course, subjective.)

[Ajay]

Cropping aside, I think I can say this is honestly no worse than some of Toei's other remasters in the HD era. The Galaxy Express 999 TV series looks pretty awful from what I've seen.

The Galaxy Express 999 Blu-rays were standard definition upconverts though. This was all scanned in HD - it's just been butchered by FUNi's 'remastering' methods.

[JEFFMAN219]

Holy shit, look how blurry this is! How are we calling this an improvement?!

Spoiler:

Kai may have been a little on the soft side of things but at least its line art didn't feature heavy ghosting. The season set is so watery and horrible.

I hope you guys are opening these images at 100% and comparing them.

How is the image above blurry??

[Ajay]

Look at the lines on his face, his eyes, anywhere. The entire thing has ghosting around each edge. It's not a solid line as it should be. It looks like the bleeding you get from a watercolour or gaussian blur filter.

[qjz123]

Holy shit, look how blurry this is! How are we calling this an improvement?!

Spoiler:

Kai may have been a little on the soft side of things but at least its line art didn't feature heavy ghosting. The season set is so watery and horrible.

I hope you guys are opening these images at 100% and comparing them.

How is the image above blurry??

He's referring to the ghosting that occurs arounds the lines. Here's a more pronounced example.

Spoiler:

[Metalwario64]

Even at a small size, it's obvious how smudged the line art is.

I'll get some Orange Brick comparisons in a bit.